Transformation Talks with Chase Birky: Firms waste time and money recreating the wheel.

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Entrepreneurs in the accounting profession are rare, according to Chase Birky, president and CEO of Dark Horse CPAs. And he should know.

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He had to take an uncomfortable step outside of his own comfort zone to become one.
After starting out in audit at a Big 4 right out of college, he decided it was no longer what he wanted to do.
"I started an audit specifically, you know, not really having a great idea of what audit truly was, you know, because you take the courses in your undergrad, and you know, you have a section of it on the CPA exam," Birky explained. "But what that material is versus what the job is, you know, are two very different things."
That motivated Birky to begin a partnership in a firm that specialized in tax and client accounting services (though he added it probably was not called CAS then).
Unfortunately, that didn't work the way he hoped, either.
However, as Birky reminds us, necessity is the mother of invention.